Category: Recipes

As a kid, I remember my mom making up cheese and cracker trays for when they had their friends in to play cards. Triscuits were always on the tray, and I always perceived them as ‘grown-up’ crackers. Quite honestly, I think back then I didn’t quite like the texture of Triscuits, all ridge like and “woven” like they are.

Easter morning hasn’t changed much for me over the years, from childhood on it has followed the same routine. Church in the morning, big Easter dinner at the noon hour and then the candy baskets get doled out! For as long as I can remember ham has been the main dish at the dinner table for Easter. That’s what my mom always made, and that’s what I continue to make for Easter Sunday in my own home.

April 2^nd marks National Peanut Butter & Jelly day: when peanut butter lovers around the nation will celebrate their love for PB&J and to help “spread” the love.

I never grew up with PB&J sandwiches, although I desperately tried trading for them during school lunches

One of the things I love about food brand websites is all the recipes they have on them. Whether it’s something the brand kitchens have whipped up or a consumer submitted recipe, there is sure to be something my family likes, or recipes I can modify to our tastes using the brands products.

I’m sure many of you know about the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest. There are SO many talented people out there who have created recipes to enter into this prestigious competition.

Here’s a great healthy and green way to kick off your St. Patrick’s Day!  My cousin re-vamped a recipe from The Chic Life – and said they were awesome, everybody in my family loved them!! Success!!!

You’ve seen them, you’ve oohed, you’ve ahhed, you’ve bookmarked and pinned.  And then you whimper just a bit, because you know you could never create those awesome Cake Pops you keep seeing all over the internet.  You just don’t have the time to make marshmallow fondant to scultp beaks and tails.  Or if you’re like me – you just don’t have the talent to do it.  It’s an art, a craft.

Hello, Slow-Cooker! Seriously, why have I NEVER thought to make a meal using both slow-cookers I own?! I haven’t as far as I recall ever used a cookbook so much since I first got it as I have Cheryl Moeller’s Creative Slow-Cooker Meals: Use Two Slow Cookers for Tasty and Easy Dinners.

My family doesn’t like ‘casseroles’ much, so I generally am still making a side dish in the oven or in the microwave if I’m making my meat dish in the slow-cooker. But not anymore!

Okay I know that “technically” lasagna in itself means that the dish was made with lasagna noodles, but I like the sound of Tex-Mex Lasagna better than Taco Pie, and it’s my blog so I’m calling it that!

The original recipe came from Kraft Foods (disclosure that I’m an official Kraft Foods Blogger – I didn’t get anything to make this recipe though, just so you know).

I think I’ve mentioned before that my family is kind of picky when it comes to food.  It’s because of this that I very rarely make a recipe as it’s lined out.

I’ve been stalking Pinterest lately because there are all sorts of recipes that have been pinned on there, that I’d never be able to find myself online.  And maybe it’s because a lot of them come from ‘mom blogs’ and if I can’t use the recipes as written at least they’re fairly easy to modify to fit the tastes of my family.

Here’s a revved up cup of cocoa to give your Valentine on a cold February day.  (If anyone in the country happens to get a cold day this February that is!)

It’s easy to make using Hershey’s Raspberry Hugs.